Firefighters from Kentucky, Boston and Baltimore were among the scores of uniformed men and women who showed up to pay their respects to David Meyer's family.

"Dave embodied everything a Chicago firefighter is and should be; the bravest of us all, a true leader in every sense of the word," his fellow firefighters said.

Captain David Meyer was 54 years old and a 28-year veteran of the Chicago Fire Department. He was killed while crews were responding to a garage fire that broke out around 4 a.m. Wednesday in the 5500 block of West Crystal in the Austin neighborhood.